top white house negotiators head to capitol hill today to continue talks about avoiding the fiscal cliff. tracie potts joins us live on capitol hill where the meetings will take place. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. one of the key players today will be the bay area's own nancy pelosi. the minority leader now on the house side, her job will be to try to not only come to some sort of agreement with the leadership, but then convince the rest of the democrats in the house that this is a good deal, but we are far from that right now. what's happening today, white house negotiators, tim geithner, the treasury secretary and the white house legislative chair coming here to capitol hill to work with pelosi, john boehner, mitch mcconnell and harry reid to try to get some understanding of what the white house is willing to do here. republicans say what they want to hear is what budget cuts, what spending cuts is the white house, the president, are democrats willing to make. in other words, as boehner put it, if we're going to put new revenue on the table, something we didn't want to do, w